Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature, therefore he is Germany’s greatest poet and novelist.
His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature. His other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
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A clever man commits no blunders.
A person hears only what they understand.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~Johann von Goethe
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A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, 20 has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.
Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Character calls forth character.
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Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
~Johann von Goethe
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I sometime wonder whether our planet is the asylum of the universe for disordered minds.
– Goethe
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.
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Let your trouble be, Light will follow dark: Though the heaven falls, You may hear the lark.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Solitude is a wonderful ting when one is at peace with oneself and when there is a definite task to be accomplished.
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TALENTS are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann von Goethe
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THE loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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WE in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing is busy idleness.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing fro him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
